Almatin Siswanto từ Ribeira da Cruz, Cape Verde

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2018-03-16 21:31

Successful Selling In A Week: How To Excel In Sales In Seven Simple Steps Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Christine Harvey

Wow... this was decidedly not what I was expecting. The jacket copy led me to expect the typical light-hearted racy Regency (well, post-Regency-- by 1828, Prinny's been on the throne in his own right for 8 years already). In truth, this book is an epic adventure-romance on the order of Georgette Heyer's Beauvallet or something of Rafael Sabatini's. The Marquis of Moreland's dark secrets are dark, indeed-- both parents committed suicide before he was even a teenager (he was the one to discover his father), and he is, with his reclusive grandmother's help, attempting to break free of an addiction to cutting. Painfully aware of his own dark desires (he thinks of himself as a "queer"), he's written his manual on "How to Avoid a Scandal" largely to keep innocent young ladies safe from men like HIM. His mysterious new neighbor, Zosia, is Polish nobility, sent away from her country to find a safely apolitical British husband just as the Tsar of Russia has taken over her home country. She is deeply patriotic, but has little control over her own fate. In London for the summer (and condemned to a convent in France if she fails to wed), she is an amputee (missing one leg), a ward of the King, and a prisoner in her own house. But Zosia is a patriot-- she wants to help her country, and intends to begin by helping herself to a husband of *her* choosing. But there are secrets even Zosia does not know about herself. Their flirtation/courtship begins through the windows-- her bedroom faces his across the square. Before they are done, Moreland will defy his family and his king for love of her, and she will travel to Russia to face the Tsar herself. Truly, this was a worthy read-- I only wish I'd known what I was getting into from the start. Ms. Marvelle, I think you did your heritage proud.

Người đọc Almatin Siswanto từ Ribeira da Cruz, Cape Verde

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.